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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2012 Jul 1.
Published in final edited form as: Soc Sci Res. 2011 Jul 1;40(4):1108–1123. doi: 10.1016/j.ssresearch.2011.04.003

Table 4.

Transitions in Black-Majority Tracts, 1990–2000a

2000 racial structure E % changeb N of tracts
Dominant Shared B-W B-L B-A B-W-L B-W-A B-L-A No B maj.
1990 racial structure Dominant 80.7% 12.3 1.6 5.1 19.1 1,820
Shared 29.6 35.4% 4.6 25.0 −5.3 280
B-W 9.6 15.6 58.6% 1.9 6.5 6.3 −6.6 1,332
B-L 5.3 61.6% 29.1 3.1 505
B-A 7.3 17
B-W-L 35.3 28.6% 30.4 −0.3 224
B-W-A 4.3 19
B-L-A −3.0 9
Mean E (2000) 11.0 29.2 51.8 50.9 54.3 70.1 72.7 72.2 41.8
N of tracts 1,691 577 1,334 608 26 272 37 10 33,384
a

Cell percentages representing less than 1 percent of category or fewer than 10 tracts are omitted. B-W-L-A tracts are omitted due to small Ns and empty cells. There were 4,213 black-majority tracts in 1990; in 2000, there were 4,567 black-majority tracts.

b

Median percent change in tract diversity.